Seamus Heaney's "The Forge" supplies us with numerous examples of imagery touching on many of our senses. The imagery in this poem touches on so many of our senses that I find it somewhat more confusing than helpful. He touches on so many senses putting a blurred picture into my mind rather than a crisp clear picture. I will, however, do my best to interpret this piece of work.

Heaney appeals, for the most part, to two of our senses, sight and olfactory. He describes how things look and sound.

ly tells briefly of how something looks or sounds. Then our imagination takes this and forms a recollection of something similar that we have seen. Everyone has seen a rusting iron hoop or an axle and that is why Heaney mentions them here. We are meant to picture a quaint house perhaps a farmhouse with these items outside leaning against an old garage. The old rusting hoops and axles is how the narrator pictures himself.

The remainder of this poem describes the anvil. The anvil is everything about the man, his actions, attitude, and life. The person either dies or becomes an adult at the end of the poem. "The grunts and goes in, with a slam and flick, to beat real iron out, to work the bellows" (Heaney, 613). I believe these final two lines signify the end of the man's life because it sounds as though the iron anvil is

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)